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Show Premium on Old Coins Dependent on Rarity How valuable are old coins? A study of the dealers' lists will surprise sur-prise you, first by the smallness of the premium attached to most coins of venerable nge, and second, by the small number of coins of modern Issue that command any respectably sized premium at all. The value of any coin, of course, depends not only upon Its rarity, but upon its physical condition, says Popular Pop-ular Mechanics Magazine. A bright uncirculated coin gets a topnotch price, and this value lessens progressively progres-sively with the wear it undergoes, but if you do happen to have a rare coin of considerable age, don't clean It for that automatically halves Its value. As regards the small value of some coins of great nge, the dealers offer, for example, less than $1 In premium pre-mium for a half-cent coined in 1794, or the large copper cent of 1S00. And a silver dollar of 1794, or a largo copper cent of the same year, commands com-mands a premium of only a few cents. The only common coin of comparatively compara-tively recent issuance that is quite valuable is the 191.'! "Liberty Head" nickel. You can exchange It for a fine, complete outfit of clothes any time. Another common coin of great value is the 1S04 "S" mint silver dime, which is valued at several hundred hun-dred dollars. The 1S7G "CO" mint 20-cent piece can buy you a fair second-hand car. |